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i mean, look, nixon, reagan, george w. bush, republican presidents have learned how to get stuff done at times in the face of congress and sometimes controlled by the other party. you know, this whole notion of the imperial presidency that arose under nixon, not coincidentally, a republican, i think you said it was kind of a tori sensibility. but it's really a concentration of power. >> are they stronger than the democrats and they know what that is? assembly, parliamentary? >> in some ways they have been more skillful and more ruthless in the way that they have moved the levers of power. in washington and outside of washington, to get stuff done. >> joy, i don't think the republicans have a karl rove a. malignant sense of power, i'm going to be the architect and i'm going to rule and they are spreading the money around and trying to get back the power. it does seem almost obsessive, the love of the white house. >> i think eugene robinson is right. for conservatives, the idea of being the cowboy, they like the self-image f
i mean, look, nixon, reagan, george w. bush, republican presidents have learned how to get stuff done at times in the face of congress and sometimes controlled by the other party. you know, this whole notion of the imperial presidency that arose under nixon, not coincidentally, a republican, i think you said it was kind of a tori sensibility. but it's really a concentration of power. >> are they stronger than the democrats and they know what that is? assembly, parliamentary? >> in...
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. >> here's david letterman with what happened when george bush endorsed romney as the elevator doors were closing. >> we have a simulation, we don't have actual footage, so we put together a simulation of what george w. bush must have looked like endorsing mitt romney from the elevator. here it is. i hope you enjoy it. >> i strongly stand with mitt romney -- >> that was his tie going up the elevator. anyway, all of a sudden you see president obama a voids mentioning mitt romney when he names the policies, quote, some people running for certain offices should not be named. vice president biden was on a campaign in ohio and he wasn't so coy. >> here's the crooks of governor romney's argument. romney's partners, key men, investors, and eight years later the company was bankrupt. romney's investors walked away with $12 million. the president did not take governor romney's advice. governor romney seems to want it both ways. romney. romney. romney. he said, quote, i'll take a lot of credit for the fact that the industry's come back. whoa. by the way, i'll take a lot of credit for man havin
. >> here's david letterman with what happened when george bush endorsed romney as the elevator doors were closing. >> we have a simulation, we don't have actual footage, so we put together a simulation of what george w. bush must have looked like endorsing mitt romney from the elevator. here it is. i hope you enjoy it. >> i strongly stand with mitt romney -- >> that was his tie going up the elevator. anyway, all of a sudden you see president obama a voids mentioning...
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drone strikes under president george w. bush. the president sharply increased their use when he came into office. take a look by the american foundation. drone strikes jumped by a total of 9 between 2004 and 2007. they peaked in 2010 last year and there was a slight decrease due to the bin laden race. we'll go back to andrea on this same point. i want the same point to close with. people around the president, they'll tell you, they'll get the idea that this guy is some sort of liberal on war, that he's not quite an aggressive warrior, that he is a warrior. your sense of being able to calibrate that, steve, you and andrea. >> i think that he has demonstrated and really robbed from the mantel of the gop that america used to only feel safe with republicans during times of challenge, and i think obama has shown he can be very tough and smart. at the same time, he's also shown a lot of strategic restraint. the quick thing i would add about those drones since i'm very involved, there's a double story with those drone attacks. active te
drone strikes under president george w. bush. the president sharply increased their use when he came into office. take a look by the american foundation. drone strikes jumped by a total of 9 between 2004 and 2007. they peaked in 2010 last year and there was a slight decrease due to the bin laden race. we'll go back to andrea on this same point. i want the same point to close with. people around the president, they'll tell you, they'll get the idea that this guy is some sort of liberal on war,...
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that puts him a hair under where george w. bush was at this point in his presidency at 47.9. bush, of course, beat john kerry in a close race to win his second term. he won by 3 million votes. we'll be right back. ust too har" then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in your way. devry university, proud to support the education of our u.s. olympic team. is now within your grasp with the e-trade 360 investing dashboard. e-trade 360 is the world's first investing homepage that shows you where all your investments are and what they're doing with free streaming quotes, news, analysis and even your trade ticket. everything exactly the way you want it, all on one page. transform your investing with the e-trade 360 investing dashboard. >>> welcome back to "hardball." the shooting rampage in colorado seared in our mind, names like virginia tech, jonesboro, arkansas,
that puts him a hair under where george w. bush was at this point in his presidency at 47.9. bush, of course, beat john kerry in a close race to win his second term. he won by 3 million votes. we'll be right back. ust too har" then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in...
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and yet, george w. bush got elected, we took $155 billion surplus to a $1.5 trillion deficit, he doubled the national debt. military adventurism across the globe. the republican party -- no, let me take that party, the conservative base is not going to have a replay of george w. bush. they're not going to have a replay of john mccain. and they're not going to sit back and just allow mitt romney to coast to the nomination. does that mean that romney can't make the sell with conservatives? no, i'm not saying that at all, but his focus after he wins iowa and new hampshire, if he does, better be to win over the conservative base and convince them, i will not be george w. bush. i will not be john mccain. >> but we know herbert walker bush, the first president bush, did the same exact thing you prescribed, read my lips, no new taxes, and then he did it! >> yet another reason for conservatives to feel burned. listen, chris -- >> why would you believe that a man who was a moderate governor in massachusetts, who
and yet, george w. bush got elected, we took $155 billion surplus to a $1.5 trillion deficit, he doubled the national debt. military adventurism across the globe. the republican party -- no, let me take that party, the conservative base is not going to have a replay of george w. bush. they're not going to have a replay of john mccain. and they're not going to sit back and just allow mitt romney to coast to the nomination. does that mean that romney can't make the sell with conservatives? no,...
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going back over the last ten years, since george w. bush forged a very close relationship with former british prime minister tony blair, with whom he was not an ideological soul mate. here was an opportunity for mitt romney and david cameron, peas in a pod politically, both conservatives to try and establish some kind of alliance that could take them both forward. and instead, mitt romney has found himself causing david cameron to come out and push back on this issue of the olympics, because as chris ship knows, better i think than any of us, david cameron's own credibility is at stake over the success or failure of these olympic games. >> well, let's look at romney trying to clean up the mess. but i do want to remind our viewer here is in the states of what david cameron did to take a shot at him in the morning. let's take a look at this morning on the today show, our big morning show here. mitt romney tried to end the static he had stirred up with a "nightly news" interview he did with brian williams. he did it by complimenting now.
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we have got to get there. >> ted olson, former solicitor-general under george w. bush along with david boyes. thank you so much for joining us tonight and congratulations on your win today. appreciate you being here. >> thank you so much, rachel. >> a programming note. one of the couples represented by ted olson are on the last word with lawrence o'donnell tonight, which is very cool. you have to watch that, okay? deal, deal. joining us now is dahlia litwick. senior editor and correspondent for dahlia. thank you for being with us. >> listen to ted olson, do you agree with his take on whether or not this case goes to the supreme court and how it will do there? >> well, i agree with just about everything he said. i do think it's really important to look back at judge von walker's 2010 decision and look at how thermonuclear that decision really was. what he did in that opinion, finding a fundamental right to gay marriage, finding an equal protection violation was whittled down by the court today. ironically, i think you have to read a little bit about judge reinhart,
we have got to get there. >> ted olson, former solicitor-general under george w. bush along with david boyes. thank you so much for joining us tonight and congratulations on your win today. appreciate you being here. >> thank you so much, rachel. >> a programming note. one of the couples represented by ted olson are on the last word with lawrence o'donnell tonight, which is very cool. you have to watch that, okay? deal, deal. joining us now is dahlia litwick. senior editor and...
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olympic games, i used that term because that was the code word for the george w. bush administration's plan to stabilize, disrupt and krip pel the iranian nuclear program by basically hacking into it. >> cyber war. >> cyber war. >> because the iranian nuclear program is not on the internet, this required having an agent insert a fund drive, and as david describes in his book, confront and conceal, it was actually inserting mechanisms into the secentrifuges in iran, and over what was happening in tehran's nuclear plant. >> i thought it was israeli because that was all over the covers. >> so did i until i read david's book. it was george bush. >> i thought he gave it all away today the way he treated this with such gravity, the way he responded to the leaks, his anger about whoever did it. it was almost, to me, a statement, hey, this is what we're doing. and i don't want it out there. >> well, in fact, what mike rogers, the chairman of the house intelligence committee who has been completely non-partisan in all of this and has been given high marks by the white hous
olympic games, i used that term because that was the code word for the george w. bush administration's plan to stabilize, disrupt and krip pel the iranian nuclear program by basically hacking into it. >> cyber war. >> cyber war. >> because the iranian nuclear program is not on the internet, this required having an agent insert a fund drive, and as david describes in his book, confront and conceal, it was actually inserting mechanisms into the secentrifuges in iran, and over...
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if george w. bush had gotten him, he would still be shooting con fety out of cannons, don't you think? history and the voters know the difference between success and sour grapes. true victory by the man in the are than in a a cheer from the cheap seats. if was it was that easy, everybody knows that w. would have done it
if george w. bush had gotten him, he would still be shooting con fety out of cannons, don't you think? history and the voters know the difference between success and sour grapes. true victory by the man in the are than in a a cheer from the cheap seats. if was it was that easy, everybody knows that w. would have done it
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you had george w. bush in 2004 using national security. in 2012 barack obama is using a very successful operation a year ago. this has been going on for over 200 years. it is an great shock. but i think on the positive side, the troops needed to see their commander-in-chief today. i think it is a very good thing they got to do that. >> let me go back it chuck. i think there a difference and you can agree that if you exploit you what are doing or lying, here he is explaining. there is no doubt he want to continue the role in afghanistan. he will take the heat for that, from all across the political spectrum because the -- i see him being quite authentic and saying, i'm not one of the cut and run people. i think we have a residual role and i'm willing to take the heat on it. >> he is using political capital he has on bin laden. and trying to sell -- trying to explain why the united states is going to be staying in afghanistan in one form or another for another, what is it now, 12 years. i mean, that is an amazing number when you think about
you had george w. bush in 2004 using national security. in 2012 barack obama is using a very successful operation a year ago. this has been going on for over 200 years. it is an great shock. but i think on the positive side, the troops needed to see their commander-in-chief today. i think it is a very good thing they got to do that. >> let me go back it chuck. i think there a difference and you can agree that if you exploit you what are doing or lying, here he is explaining. there is no...
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i mean, ronald reagan had a 47-point lead to beat george w. bush and beats him by 27 points. jimmy carter was supposed to win by 29, and wins by 10. when voters in new hampshire make up their minds in the last couple of days, 15% make their minds up in the last couple of days, this place is always unpredictable. >> jennifer, let me ask you about that question, unpredictability. numbers coming in here, 43%, for example, for romney, the former governor up here in massachusetts and 5% for his latest challenger, santorum. i mean, i'm just wondering looking at all these numbers we've got here, who can beat this guy up here. look at this, paul is at 16, huntsman at 10 and gingrich at 9 and santorum at 5. who can catch 43? >> well, you know, i just want to think back to 2008 when we thought that barack obama was going to walk right past hillary clinton, and that's not what happened. >> yeah. >> i'm looking back to 2000 when we thought that george w. bush would beat john mccain, and mccain won in a landslide by 19 points. this is an unpredictable state. there are two debates over the
i mean, ronald reagan had a 47-point lead to beat george w. bush and beats him by 27 points. jimmy carter was supposed to win by 29, and wins by 10. when voters in new hampshire make up their minds in the last couple of days, 15% make their minds up in the last couple of days, this place is always unpredictable. >> jennifer, let me ask you about that question, unpredictability. numbers coming in here, 43%, for example, for romney, the former governor up here in massachusetts and 5% for...
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they think given their track record with people like george w. bush that they can push around anybody. >> quail. >> can push around anybody. especially what they think mitt is. it is up to mitt to prove, it he wins, that he isn't -- >> okay, i've done my homework here michael, before you came. take a look at what he, especially vulnerable to what howard laid out beautifully. if there is a strong one without a lot of well thought thinking, and bush had nothing going on in terms of philosophy in 2007 on fox romney said foreign policy experience wasn't important to have. here is what he said. if we had someone with experience in foreign policy we could go to the state department and pluck out one of the tens of thousands who work there. they have been doing foreign policy but that's not how we choose a president. even john mccain couldn't help but,000 these comments in a a debate. let's listen to mccaine. >> following is a mitt romney issue alert. romney says the president doesn't need foreign policy experience. >> well if we want someone with a lot
they think given their track record with people like george w. bush that they can push around anybody. >> quail. >> can push around anybody. especially what they think mitt is. it is up to mitt to prove, it he wins, that he isn't -- >> okay, i've done my homework here michael, before you came. take a look at what he, especially vulnerable to what howard laid out beautifully. if there is a strong one without a lot of well thought thinking, and bush had nothing going on in terms...
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president obama held up governor romney's economic policies as carbon copy of a failed george w. bush agenda. >> the economic vision of mr. romney and his allies in congress cousin wested just a few years ago. we tried this. their policies did not grow the economy. they did not grow the middle class. they did not reduce our debt. why would we think they would work better this time? >> joan wal ch -- walsh, is blame bush still potent? >> i think polls show and voters blame bush, michael, but i think he did more than that. an interesting thing the president did, he's making the case i'm not just speaking out of eight years of republican leadership lsh -- lack of leadership. i'm digging out of 30 years and he really told quite a telling story. we had wages begin to decline. we had moms going to the workforce, families trying to keep up. families borrowing against their houses because their wages weren't keeping up. starting with reagan, we disinvested in public education. here in california, the system was free until ronald reagan. we've seen college tuition costs double and triple.
president obama held up governor romney's economic policies as carbon copy of a failed george w. bush agenda. >> the economic vision of mr. romney and his allies in congress cousin wested just a few years ago. we tried this. their policies did not grow the economy. they did not grow the middle class. they did not reduce our debt. why would we think they would work better this time? >> joan wal ch -- walsh, is blame bush still potent? >> i think polls show and voters blame...
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along the way, joy, this is purely partisan observation, w, president george w. bush, did not take this job seriously. not just going into iraq which was wrong. he created a federal agency and turned it into run by what was that guys name? michael brown. >> it was brown. >> brownie. >> alba was the other guy. michael brown, you're doing a great job brownie. a guy from the arabian horse ration association and put him on charge showing how much focus he had on this kind of disaster situation. >> he turned it into a patronage job and republicans like to claim democrats basically use government for patronage but george wumplt bush famously took almost federal agency as a place to park executives. when he put michael brown into fema it was a slap in the face to the notion that the federal government's job is to step in and help people with disasters. he thought anybody could do it. >> thank you, david corn, and thank you, joy. in all seriousness, this is a serious situation, but this brings up the serious decisions the voters have to make. i think we need a federal ro
along the way, joy, this is purely partisan observation, w, president george w. bush, did not take this job seriously. not just going into iraq which was wrong. he created a federal agency and turned it into run by what was that guys name? michael brown. >> it was brown. >> brownie. >> alba was the other guy. michael brown, you're doing a great job brownie. a guy from the arabian horse ration association and put him on charge showing how much focus he had on this kind of...
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began under president george w. bush and goes on to write that obama's policies have not even been close to being socialist. "obama rejected nationalizing banks and made clear that he had no interest in running the auto companies receiving t.a.r.p. money. the president's health care reform law keeps insurance in private hands, adopts the individual mandate concept from the conservative heritage foundation and is modelled in part on former governor mitt romney's massachusetts's rrm fop. not exactly a belshevik plot as obama put it. finally, the dodd/frank reform bill which obama signed into law in 2010 regulates wall street but hardly controls it. this idea, by the way, hold the president somewhat responsible. how he ever got the socialist tag thrown on this bill which is basically at least, i'd say to the right of nixon's plan. nixon wanted to make employers have to pay for everybody's health care. this says the individual has to do it. >> you know, it's been an absurd charge from the very beginning that he's a soci
began under president george w. bush and goes on to write that obama's policies have not even been close to being socialist. "obama rejected nationalizing banks and made clear that he had no interest in running the auto companies receiving t.a.r.p. money. the president's health care reform law keeps insurance in private hands, adopts the individual mandate concept from the conservative heritage foundation and is modelled in part on former governor mitt romney's massachusetts's rrm fop. not...
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w. >> so the clown car has backed up to run over mitt romney. that's your image for tonight, howard. >> yes, it is. >> that woman who didn't like her husband, she drove over the guy in the parking lot a few years back then drove back over him again. i don't want to get involved in that legal case, but i do remember the pictures. let's go to john here. is this the clown cars as howard beautifully put it backing up over the guy that outworked them and won the election even though he's no more or less dorky than they were? your thoughts. >> some of these people are not certifiable clowns who are saying these things about romney. i don't disagree with howard's characterization in general, i do think it's fair to say that part of romney's problem was that he was really always an incredibly bad fit with the republican party at almost every level. he was not most of the things the republican party is today nor is he really much of what the traditional party has been. he was not a considerate co
w. >> so the clown car has backed up to run over mitt romney. that's your image for tonight, howard. >> yes, it is. >> that woman who didn't like her husband, she drove over the guy in the parking lot a few years back then drove back over him again. i don't want to get involved in that legal case, but i do remember the pictures. let's go to john here. is this the clown cars as howard beautifully put it backing up over the guy that outworked them and won the election even...
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george w. bush administration's plan to destabilize, disrupt, cripple the iranian nuclear program through high tech, basically hacking into it. >> skcyber war. and because the iranian nuclear program is not on the internet, this actually required having an agent insert a thumb drive, and as david sanger describes in his book, confront and conceal, it was actually inserting mechanisms into the centrifuges in iran, in tehran, and giving us a mirror image, and the israelis as well, who we brought into this, in what was happening in the nuclear plant, and it was u.s. initiated, not as had been previously suspected or inferred. >> i thought it was israel. >> so did all of us until we read sanger's book, which has not been denied by anyone. it was george bush expanded greatly by obama. >> you're a president watcher. don't you think -- i don't know if you can go this far. i thought he gave it all away today the way he treated this with such gravity, the way he responded to the leaks, his anger about w
george w. bush administration's plan to destabilize, disrupt, cripple the iranian nuclear program through high tech, basically hacking into it. >> skcyber war. and because the iranian nuclear program is not on the internet, this actually required having an agent insert a thumb drive, and as david sanger describes in his book, confront and conceal, it was actually inserting mechanisms into the centrifuges in iran, in tehran, and giving us a mirror image, and the israelis as well, who we...
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if you're a super charismatic candidate like george w. bush or john mccain, they ran without a bold agenda. they had more emotional level, value levels way to connect with voters. this guy doesn't have it. he has all the warmth of a wall street ceo." evan, is it essential that at some p point he connect or can voters simply say, look, you know, i can't have a beer with him, but i think he can turn the economy around. >> well, as you were saying at the top of the show, if the economy tanks and if unemployment goes way up, he can win by default. but, sure, i mean -- he's got to do -- he's got to do better than he's done. he's been a bad politician. he's got to find a way to be -- i don't like this word, relatable, some way to relate to voters. and they haven't figured it out they're going to try. you're going to see a lot more of romney telling his story and how he's helping people. >> on jay leno the other night, david gregory was talking about what he thinks really drives romney. and he says at his core is his faith and yet seems reluctan
if you're a super charismatic candidate like george w. bush or john mccain, they ran without a bold agenda. they had more emotional level, value levels way to connect with voters. this guy doesn't have it. he has all the warmth of a wall street ceo." evan, is it essential that at some p point he connect or can voters simply say, look, you know, i can't have a beer with him, but i think he can turn the economy around. >> well, as you were saying at the top of the show, if the economy...
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it shows steep job losses under president george w. bush right there in the red. and shown here in the red. once barack obama became president, the chart turns blue. look at it. see it begins to show reverse and job losses eventually become job gains above the line. we all learned to read those graphs in school. the stuff above means it's shooting up positive. underscoring the point the economy has steadily improved. a bloomberg report shows the economies of michigan, indiana, ohio and pennsylvania have improved faster than the rest of the country since the recession began in april of 2009 until the end of 2011. some of those, by the way, some of those are in what i call the scranton to oshkosh corridor. the sensitive blue collar part of the country where people depend on the accordion industries. they go in and out. they hire and then lay off people. hire, lay off. serve very sensitive. where there are layoffs and where people are hiring. >> two things come to mind. the first is, david is right. they are going to go toe-to-toe and try to get something passed for
it shows steep job losses under president george w. bush right there in the red. and shown here in the red. once barack obama became president, the chart turns blue. look at it. see it begins to show reverse and job losses eventually become job gains above the line. we all learned to read those graphs in school. the stuff above means it's shooting up positive. underscoring the point the economy has steadily improved. a bloomberg report shows the economies of michigan, indiana, ohio and...
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. >> and the big panel weighs in on george w. bush's jaw-dropping new interview. >> eight years was awesome. and you know, i was famous and i was powerful. >> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. another day, another new plan of attack for the romney campaign. yesterday, it was the dart board mentality. today, it's the kitchen sink approach. >> his priority is not creating jobs for you. his priority is trying to keep his own job, and that's why he's going to lose it. he's out of touch, out of ideas, out of excuses. that's why in november we have to get him out of office. he divides us.
. >> and the big panel weighs in on george w. bush's jaw-dropping new interview. >> eight years was awesome. and you know, i was famous and i was powerful. >> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. another day, another new plan of attack for the romney campaign. yesterday, it was the dart board mentality. today, it's the kitchen sink approach. >> his priority is not creating jobs for you. his priority is trying to keep his own job, and that's why he's going to...